More from cloud economics tweet jam

In a business setting, an exit strategy commonly refers to terminating relationships with outside organizations and pulling back on investments and partnerships -- activities that fall well within the CIO scope. Our tweet jam participants, including Ravi Ravishanker, CIO at Wellesley College and an expert cloud comput-er, offered their advice for crafting a cloud exit strategy:

@ravishan Unfortunately, the vast majority don't consider their exit strategy from a provider (cloud or not) until they need it. #CIOchat

Since whether to plan a cloud exit strategy is a given, according to our followers, the question emerges: How can IT best make its exit? Here's what tweet jam participants felt a cloud exit strategy should contain. Hint: It includes offsite backup and well-established service-level agreements with providers:

@mthiele10 great point, heard nightmare stories about getting data back in a usable format and timely fashion #ciochat

The overarching advice from our tweet jam participants was "expect failure." But it's not enough to just anticipate the possibility of the cloud not working out; IT leaders must also plan for recovery:

All data centers have failures to one degree or another. Contingency planning is key…even for service providers (incl cloud). #CIOchat

Do you have a cloud exit strategy in place at your organization? Have you planned for failure to ensure future IT success? Let us know in the comment section below.

Join SearchCIO for our next tweet jam on Oct. 30 at 3 p.m. (topic and expert TBA). In the meantime, stay tuned for more cloud economics recaps and check out the full conversation on Twitter by searching "#CIOChat."

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